It's just your nature

let the squirrels run free

I managed to block the ticket from my mind. My mental gymnastics didn’t help. I still lived in the reality that yes, that ticket really did happen and you need to change how you drive. Fortunately, treatments for this brain thing have helped dramatically. I no longer feel compelled to treat every short drive to the grocery store as though I’m careening across the Sahara in the Paris / Dakar rally.

I didn’t want to drive like that. There was however the question of the angry squirrels living in my chest. They wanted me to go faster. I had to get rid of them. With ADHD treatments, the angry squirrels became subdued.

Though I had changed, my relationship with the DMV had not. With the ticket blocked from my mind. I changed myself in relationship to the world. I became a better driver. With the same sense of ‘will over reality’ I attempted to ostrich the impact of the ticket away.

This was not successful. Try as I may, merely willing a ticket away. Though fairly sharp, I guess willful igno…